alt Hacker NewsAbout 2 years ago I bought some SDRAM or something like that, DDR4 or DDR5, don't recall offhand. A few months ago I looked at the price today, and it was over 3x as high. That's just insane. Governments need to do something against this abuse system that AI amplified here.
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pfdietz • yesterday at 6:33 PM
What abuse? Responding to supply and demand fluctuations isn't abuse, it's the proper operation of the market.
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yread • yesterday at 7:35 PM
3x? I bought 128GB DDR5 SODIMMs for 300 eur. Now it's 4000 eur.
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jeroenhd • yesterday at 7:07 PM
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> Governments need to do something against this abuse system that AI amplified here.
Which governments, and what exactly would you want these governments to do? The demand is global. There are no levers a single government can pull to meaningfully influence the global demand without fully committing to an protectionist economic policy, in which case the U.S. doesn't have the facilities to magically pop up world class fabs overnight, and South Korea and Taiwan don't have the market demand that the U.S. generates to justify their investments in making these chips and China lacks the IP to be able to build anything comparable to Nvidia's silicon at the moment.
No one has all the cards and no one controls all the levers.